Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

Perhaps these ancient observatories like Stonehenge perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the Sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars!

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center.

People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow.